²⁷And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her?

²⁸The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there:

²⁹Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

³⁰They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.

³¹In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

³²But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.

³³The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

³⁴Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

³⁵Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest.

³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth.

³⁸I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

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John 4:34: Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.”

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